Major publishers may not have been rushing to support the Switch over the last year or so, but indie developers certainly have.

Time and again they’ve reported that the Switch version has sold the best, and so given that it’s no surprise that Ubisoft are bringing Child Of Light and Valiant Hearts: The Great War to Nintendo’s console.

Ubisoft being a giant multinational company they’re not technically indie games, but they were passion projects made by purposefully small teams within Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Montpellier.

Child Of Light was essentially a Japanese role-player mixed with a 2D platformer, while Valiant Hearts was a highly ambitious, and mostly successful, adventure game set during the First World War.

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Both were released in 2014 and while critically acclaimed, and seemingly fairly successful, were never heard from again, as Ubisoft seemed to lose interest in making pseudo-indie games.

But now they’re both being released for Switch, with a new blog entry promising them before the end of the year.

Both will feature optional motion controls and Switch-specific features, such as a limited co-op mode for Child Of Light and a new interactive comic book for Valiant Hearts.

That’s all very welcome but what’s most exciting is that the tweet announcing the news has a photo showing a piece of paper that appears to have Child Of Light II written on it.

It seems to have been very purposefully placed in the frame, so we’d expect a formal annoucement – probably for all formats – sometime soon.